Gallery: Panini America Begins Packing Out 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey
The notoriously torrid Texas summer reared its gnarly teeth on Saturday afternoon with a high temperature of 102 degrees on a day when humidity made it feel like a balmy 105. The crazy part, though? It was even hotter inside the Panini America production facility, where Chris Barr, Matt Davis and Jim Stefano were giving 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey the white-glove treatment…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Breaks Two Early Boxes of 2013-14 Contenders Hockey
Word on the street (and by street, we mean social media channels and our very own Product Development and Sales departments) is that 2013-14 Contenders Hockey is, well, loaded. Typically, "loaded" can be a hard-to-define term that tends to vary from collector to collector. But what we can report as it relates to the two random boxes we just opened…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Busts Three Boxes of 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey
Before we get into the meat of this post, we'd like to offer our sincere apologies for not getting this Panini America Teaser Gallery to you sooner. The 2014 NFLPA Rookie Premiere took most of us out of the office for most of last week, so our pack-by-pack preview of 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey got bumped back just a bit.…
The Panini America Quality Control Gallery: 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey (84 Pics)
Panini America NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr was it again earlier this week, dispensing his own unique brand of hockey hobby hysteria throughout the social media universe with another of his riveting takeovers of the Panini America Twitter account. This time, Barr kicked off our Monday morning by providing live Twitter coverage of the packout process for 2013-14 Rookie Anthology…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2013-14 Prime Hockey (Must-See Gallery)
For hockey's most passionate patch purveyors, late June can't come fast enough. That's when Panini America's 2013-14 Prime Hockey hits the ice -- quite possibly for the last time. As a result, the third annual installment of one of the most memorabilia-rich trading card brands in hockey history is shaping up to be the most prime edition yet. You've already seen…
Prime-Time Preview: Panini America Offers Pre-Ink Peek at 2013-14 Prime Hockey
It's been something of a hardcore hockey collector's dream day here at Panini America. It started with daylong Twitter coverage of the 2013-14 Playbook Hockey packout from NHL Brand Manager Chris Barr and then continued with our first extended sneak peek at the upcoming 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey. Now, the dream's about to get even sweeter. Late yesterday afternoon, Panini…
Panini America Offers Detailed First Look at 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey
Say this about Panini America's historic close to the 2013-14 NHL trading card season: It promises to be absolutely fascinating. You can discern that for yourself by watching today's 2013-14 Playbook Hockey packout on Twitter . . . or by experiencing 2013-14 Contenders Hockey after that. Of course, then there's 2013-14 Rookie Anthology Hockey, 2013-14 Prime Hockey and 2013-14 National Treasures Hockey…
2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey Shines in a Revealing Episode of Panini Unwrapped
Panini America's 2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey has spent the last 48 hours or so absolutely blazing a buzz trail in hobby shops, on group break sites and in social media circles. Clearly, it's the product passionate puckheads are talking about this week. Earlier this week, Panini America's Chris Barr and Tracy Hackler sat down to bust a few boxes of…
Teaser Gallery: Panini America Opens Early Boxes of 2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey
This time tomorrow, hockey collectors across North America will help make hobby history by busting open packs of 2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey, the brand's first-ever appearance on the ice. True to its roots in other sports, 2013-14 Totally Certified Hockey offers the brand staples that have become the stuff of legend, including microetched base cards in a rainbow array of…
Panini America Takes Long Look Back at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft (Massive Gallery)
It's hard to believe that one full week has passed since last Sunday's 2013 NHL Entry Draft. Amid all of the fireworks that we've witnessed in the last few days as America celebrated its independence, it's easy to forget that last week's draft in New Jersey held its own series of explosive developments -- and all of us here at…